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• The functional significance of modal evaluative component in the concept structure: The case of M. Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita

  This article analyses connections between modality and concept. The au-thor explains the way modal meanings are connected to concepts, stresses the functional value of modal meanings for concept structure, and considers the structure of concept, its nuclear, and interpretation field. The concept of «duty» ...

• Language presentation of concepts in Russian and English cultures (using the lexeme “green” in phraseological units as an example)

  This article concentrates on the research of concept understanding as a mental and inter-cultural unit in collective perception, represented by means of set expressions and phraseological units. Specific ways of the formation of the phraseological concepts in English and Russian cultures are described ...

• The Concept of Soul: A Comparative Study of the Russian and the Armenian Pictures of the World

  The author analyses the concept ‘soul’ as a means of representing reality in the brain through comparing two linguistic pictures of the world. It is known that a concept contains important cultural information, harbouring its concrete meaning in a linguistic unit. The study ...

• The typology of procedures of operations with concepts

  This article formulates the problems of concept process analysis. The author analyses a set of concept procedures and identifies the bases for their classification. Different classifications of concept procedures are presented in article. 1.  Бойко А.   П. Логический анализ ...

• Cоncept of LOVE in religious consciounsness of J. H. Wichern

  The article deals with the content of religious concept of LOVE in J. H. Wichern’s religious consciousness. In the article are described the conceptual indications of the concept of LOVE and is identified the structure of the concept researched. 1. Кислянская Е. А. Структурно-семантические ...

• The concepts of citizenship and estate in Russian history — conti­nuity and / or intermittence

  The author studied the development of the concept “people” in contemporary history tak­ing into account its possible interpretation as a bearer of sovereignty. This concept goes back to the time of early bourgeois revolutions. The author holds that there are certain parallels between the ...

• Cognitive and linguistic aspects of forming of event-driven concepts

  The term event-driven concept is analyzed in the dynamic process of its tructuring in a recipient's consciousness; the functional semantico-syntactical frame of event-driven concepts with various categorial functional relations between the participants of corresponding events ...

• Some remarks on the concept and function of Kant’s theory of schematism in the Critique of Pure Reason

  The article introduces Kant’s doctrine of schematism (Critique of Pure Reason A 137-A 147; B 176-B 187). The inclusion of the chapter on schematism in the ‘Doctrine of the Principles’ rather than the ‘Doctrine of Concepts’ is taken as a clue to distinguishing the Doctrine of Schematism from the Deduction of the Pure Concepts of the Understanding. This provides clarity on the function of schematism. The author conceives of schematism as something entirely new ...

• The representation of the concept “family” in English conceptual sphere: a case of children poems

  The article focuses on the representation of the concept «family» in English poetry for children. Particular attention is paid to the national and cultural component of the concept under study. 1.  Виноградов Г.   С. Страна детей. СПб., 1998. 2.  Краткий словарь ...

• Subjective modality of the literary text: ontological status in author’s conception of the world

  ... one to comprehensively represent the author’s attitude to the communicated instance. The purpose of the article stays with the need to substantiate the ontological status of the subjective modality of a literary text as a component of the author’s concept of the world. The material for the study is the literary text of the essay “Caucasian” by M.Yu. Lermon­tov as a genre that demonstrates a complex synthesis of various zones of im­plementation of subjective modality. The author’s concept,...

• Kant’s transcendentalism and concept of the thing in itself

  This article analyses Kant’s transcendental philosophy (transcendentalism) and its central concept — the thing in itself is the kind of concept without which it is impossible to enter Kant’s philosophy (a paraphrase of Jacobi’s maxim). Methodologically, transcendentalism implies a transcendental turn from studying [empirical] objects ...

• The ‘border’ concept in ‘Das Provisorium’ by W. Hilbig

  In this article the author attempts to outline some of the problems associated with the concept of border’ in contemporary German literature based on the book ‘Das Provisorium’ by W. Hilbig. 1.  Хильбиг В. Временное пристанище: роман. СПб., 2004. 2.  Бердяев Н.   А. Истина и ...

• The problem of gaps, non-equivalent words and national concepts, existing in the Public Relations terminology

  This paper describes lacunes, non-equivalent words and culture-specific concepts in the Public Relations terminology. It is the first time that the relationships between the concept, sememe and lexeme have been analyzed. 1.  Англо-русский словарь / В.   К. Мюллер. М., 1990. 2.  Англо-русский ...

• Operations with concepts: system characteristics and the sources of logical errors

  This article focuses on the essence and features of concept operations. The author introduces the concepts of logical structure, logical and logical-cognitive form, and natural form of operations. The sources of mistakes in concept operation are identified and classified. 1. Бойко А. П. Логический ...

• Actualization of linguo-cultural concepts, verbalized by imported prefixes and prefixoids

  The article suggests a linguo-cognitive typology of prefixes and prefixoids, verbalizing linguo-cultural concepts. Special attention is focused on the concepts verbalized by imported morphemes. A dynamic analysis of these concepts is carried out using the example of conditionally identified “time-related” concepts. 1.  Бандальер А . На ...

• The concept “people” in the modern European political thought: Hobbes, Spinoza, Pufendorf

  The author considers the evolution of the concept “people” in the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, Samuel Pufendorf and Benedict Spinoza. The political thought of Europe in the 17th century demonstrates a conscious turn from the medieval scholastic tradition of thinking about people ...

• The linguopragmatic potential of comparison in the literary discourse: The case of Khaled Hosseini’s works

  This article analyses the linguistic characteristics of similes in the works of modern American writer Khaled Hosseini. It provides an interpretation of the semantic, structural, and pragmatic features of comparative structures containing a comparison concept and a concept under comparison that have a referential correlation with the spheres of the spiritual and material world. It is concluded that that that stylistic device of simile, which helps to deliver the intention of the author of a literary ...

• The concept “people” in the Cadet Party rhetoric

  The article considers the interpretation of the concept “people” by the Constitutional Democratic Party supporters. This concept is of fundamental importance for the analysis of Cadet ideology. The concept “people” was of great political value for the Cadet party. The author correlates this ...

• The logical models of the analytical generalisations and particularisations of concepts

  This article examines the procedural structures of operations with concepts and offers the logical models of concept generalisation and particularisation, describes the types of operations, and determines the sources of logical fallacies of natural generalisations and particularisations. 1. Брюшинкин В.   ...

• Representation of the conceptual and value components in the concepts HOME and HOME / HOUSE in advertising discourse

  The article describes the representation of the categorial and axiological com¬ponents of the concept ДОМ and HOME / HOUSE in advertising dis-course. The analysis is based on the examples of modern Russian and British advertise¬ments. The article points out a number of generic peculiarities of the explication of the concept caused by the characteristics ...

• Conceptual picture of the world and the specificity of its formation

  In the article the concept is presented as a mental multimodal nonlinear product. Changing of the figure-background relations as a basic mechanism of the perception of any kind of information appears as a ground of the transformation of the meaning of the concept. 1. ...

• The concept of Joy in C. S. Lewis's autobiography

  The author's individual perception of the concept of Joy is identified in C. S. Lewis's spiritual autobiography «Surprised by Joy». The correlation be­tween the author's individual and cultural-linguistic perception of the con­cept of Joy is analysed. The research shows that Evangelic meaning ...

• The ‘training’ concept in Russian military discourse of the 19th century

  The author emphasises the high frequency of the use of ‘training’ concept in the linguistic world image of the 19th century and analyses the representative of the concept in the linguistic usage of military sublanguage of the 19th century. The article offers a cognitive description of linguistic factors in the framework ...

• Georges Gurvitch and Sergey Hessen on the Possibility of Forming Social Unity

  ... increasingly interested in the sociological extension of the idea of law. From the viewpoint of the sociology of law, law is formed in the process of social interactions and is not sanctioned by the state. Sergey Hessen and Georges Gurvitch base their conceptions of social law on the sociology of law in the 1920s and 1930s. They start a polemic in the pages of the journal Sovremenniye zapiski (Contemporary Notes). Although they differ radically in their definitions of the status of the state they concur ...

• The unification of economic activity concepts in education: the legal aspect

  This article analyses civil and educational legislation as to the use of concepts pertaining to economic activities in education. Special attention is paid to the concepts of economic, entrepreneurial, and profit generating activities, as well as the criteria of its implementation in the field of education. The author emphasizes ...

• The metaphorisation of the concept of conscience in the Polish linguistic world-image

  This article analyses the phraseological devices related to the metaphorical vision of conscience in the world image represented in the Polish language. The author distinguishes the metaphorical models that embody the concept of conscience. 1.  Лакофф   Дж ., Джонсон   М . Метафоры , которыми мы живем  // Теория ме­тафоры . М ., 1990. 2.  Маслова   В .   А . Введение в когнитивную ...

• Translation of new sociological terminology: challenges and solutions

  Rapid development of concepts in modern sociology leads to the emergence of a large number of neological terms. Currently, the academic language of Russian sociology sees an active expansion of foreign language terminology and translated terms reflecting changes in the English-language ...

• Theoretical problems of developing a healthcare strategy for students within a regional education system

  The author's treatment of key concepts and terms of strategic planning is given in the article in relation to health protection of those studying within an education system, namely, the concept and strategy of health protection, strategic choice of education system, the purpose of ...

• Kants Begriff der Verbindlichkeit und die neuzeitliche Naturrechtslehre

  My article is devoted to one of the main concepts of early modern natural law, i. e. the concept of obligation. Starting with Pufendorf's concept of obligation, it will be demonstrated that the natural law is grounded on the will of God. In contrast, the concept of obligation in Christian Wolff's ...

• Steven Makin’s ontological argument: The concept of necessary exis¬ten¬ce of God

  ... philosopher Stephen Makin in 1988. He managed to avoid the famous criticism of Kant concerning the impossibility of acknowledging the predicate ‘to exist’ as real. Makin’s argument is not based on proving the presence of necessarily exemplified concepts rather than the necessary existing object. He argues that there is at least one (and possibly unique) such concept — Anselm’s famous "that than which none greater can be conceived".There are three key ideas, namely: 1) there are ...

• Neither more nor less: the grounds for A.Skidan’s system

  The author analyzes a series of verses by A.Skidan of a “Delirium” collection (1993) and establishes the equality of semantics between giving/gift and parting, breaking apart, which allows to bring the concept of “giving/ gift” to the core of the poet’s concept structure. The article defines a semantic invariant and studies the ways of its invariant development, analyzes connection between the relevant concepts and categories of space and movement,...

• The concept of “network” in the system of basic concepts of regional economic geography

  The concept of “network” is traditionally used in sociological and economic sciences and serves as an in important object of research on the organisational forms of different phenomena and processes. This article examines the use of the “network” ...

• The Green Meadow. Kant´s new Definition of the Modal Concept of Existence in the First Moment of the “Analytic of the Beautiful”

  Contrary to the standard view in the Kant literature, I argue that the concept of “existence” is the real focus of Kant’s investigation in the “First Moment” of the “Analytic of the Beautiful” in the Critique of the Power of Judgment. That is, “existence” is not a secondary or subordinate part of a more ...

• Correlation of the notions of the subject of law and the transcendental subject in the theory of law

  The article examines the correlation between two basic concepts of the theory of law and transcendental phenomenology. Each concept has its own meaning and performs its specific function. The article aims is to identify the specifics of each concept in order to understand the existing theoretical distinctions ...

• The flow form of economic matter movement and the concept of levels

  Every science uses the concepts, in which the knowledge accumulated by it is concentrated. The methodology of economic logistics is a general theoretical approach to studying material and related flows in economic systems that based on a special understanding of reality within ...

• The concept of individuality and models of qualimetric competence

  The author describe the notions of “competence”, “competency” and “qualimetric competence”. The existing models of the qualimetric competence are analysed. The authors introduce their own model of qualimetric competence using the concept of the individuality. 1. Гребенюк О. С., Гребенюк Т. Б. Основы педагогики индивидуальности. М., 2000. 2. Гребенюк Т. Б. Методологические основы компетентностного ...

• Arguments against Redistributive Justice based on Kant’s Doctrine of Private Right

  According to Kant, “right in a state of nature is called private right” (MS, AA VI, S. 242). It is my claim that there is no room for a right to enforce the offer of benefits in the private right. Firstly, I will show how the concept of an innate right to freedom provides no conceptual foundation for a right to enforcement of alleged duties of cooperation. Since my argument is much more conceptual than hermeneutical, Isaiah Berlin’s analysis of negative liberty in “Two ...

• On the role of religion in N. N. Alekseev’s axiological model of law

  This paper is devoted to investigation of destination of religion in the process of forming of the concept of law in determined cultural circumstances. This study is actualizes the essential link between comprehension of content of domain of law and concept of subjectivity. Nikolay Alexeev overcomes concept of subjectivity represented in philosophy ...

• Moral inscrutability and self-constitution in Kant (translated from the English by V. Belonogova and D. Khizanishvili, edited by V. Chaly)

  ... 2001. Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant. New York: SUNY Press.3. Bernstein, R. J., 2002. Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation. Polity Press.4. Caswell, M., 2006. The Value of Humanity and Kant’s Conception of Evil. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 44(4), pp. 635—63.5. Cherkasova, E., 2005. On the Boundary of Intelligibility: Kant’s Conception of Radical Evil and the Limits of Ethical Discourse. The Review of Metaphysics, 58(3), pp. 571—84....

• Energy and the Ways of its Conceptualisation in Cognition: an Attempt at an Epistemological Analysis

  ... and transfer of knowledge in the humanities and analyses the role of these processes in the formation of conceptual and terminological framework for different types of discourse. The study draws on an analytical description of the development of the concept of energy in the Christian Orthodox discourse. The description was provided from the perspective of transferology — a new metadiscipline aimed to study the meaning-focused transformations of epistemological formations when transferred between ...

• The concept of time in the late poetical cycles of R. M. Rilke and B. Pasternak: back to mythological sources

  This article presents the key results of an analysis of time concepts in poetic cycles of R.M. Rilke and B. Pasternak. The author emphasises the isomorphism of evolution of ideas of time in the late works of the poets. 1. Бушман И. Н. Пастернак и Рильке (Из работы на тему ...

• Entrepreneurial capital of the region: the concept, manifestations and spatial localisation

  ... and how this capital can be measured and evaluated in view of its direct influence on the business environment and economic growth opportunities of a certain territory. This article presents the findings of a study into the complex structure of the concept of regional entrepreneurial capital and establishes how this concept is connected with such categories as entrepreneurial spirit, entrepreneurial substance, and entrepreneurial ability. Using an estimate of the number of economic entities (individual ...

• Text localization as a task of translation

  ... practical importance of this process. The purpose of this study is to determine the role of localization in modern translation theory. To achieve this goal, we have reviewed Russian and foreign papers on localization, studied the relationship between the concepts of translation and localization as a part-to-whole issue, carried out the comparative analysis of the concepts of translation, adaptation and localization. The focus on the three key characteristics of the localization process and the analysis ...

• Hermann Cohens Konzept der Anthropodizee in der Sicht Jacob Gordins

  ... given in the Philosophical Circle at the Petrograd University in December 1921. For the study of the problem of anthropodicy he was apparently inspired by the discussions at the Free Philosophical Association in 1919—1921. Gordin places Cohen’s concept of man in the wide intellectual context given by the ideas of the Russian religious philosophy, German classical philosophy, Neo-Kantianism, and the West European and Jewish mysticism (cabbala). Gordin compares Cohen’s anthropodicy with Vladimir ...

• The concepts of enclave and exclave and their use in the political and geographical characteristic of the Kaliningrad region

  This article focuses on the genesis of and correlation between the related concepts of enclave and exclave and the scope of their use in different sciences, fields of knowledge, and everyday speech. The author examines the circumstances of their emergence in the reference and professional literature in the Russian language. ...

• The institutional concept of territory marketing management

  This article analyses the institutional concept of territory marketing. The authors suggest considering institutional environment as the key factor of territory management and the minimization of the transaction costs as the objective of territory management. The authors substantiate the cybernetic ...

• Colour naming as a means to present the concept of ‘life’ in N. Gogol’s epic poem Dead Souls

  This articles analyses lexemes with the colour meaning of ‘white’, ‘green’, and ‘yellow’ as representatives of meanings related to the concept of LIFE — beauty, hope, faith. The author stresses the connection between these lexemes with the “living” images opposed to the lifeless world of Dead Souls. 1. Алимпиева Р. В. Семантическая структура слова ...

• A. G. Baumgarten’s aesthetic-semiotic concept

  In this article, we consider the semiotic concept developed by Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, a founder of modern aesthetics. We describe the principles of the semiotic theory, as expressed in Baumgarten's Metaphysica, particularly in the parts ‘Ontology’ and ‘Psychology’, in which he ...

• Deduction of Freedom vs Deduction of Experience in Kant’s Metaphysics

  My aim is to demonstrate the specificities and differences between transcendental deduction of concepts and deduction of the fundamental principles of pure practical reason in Kant’s metaphysics. First of all it is necessary to examine Kant’s attitude to the metaphysics of his time and the problem of its new justification. Kant in his philosophy ...

• A transcendental analysis of mathematics: The constructive nature of mathematics

  ... B 25] and certain types of cognition aimed at justifying their objective significance. This article aims to explicate Kant’s understanding (resp. justification) of the abstract nature of mathematical knowledge (cognition) as the “construction of concepts in intuition” (see: “to construct a concept means to exhibit a priori the intuition corresponding to it”; [CPR, A 713/В 741], which is “thoroughly grounded on definitions, axioms, and demonstrations” [CPR, A 726/В 754]. Unlike specific ...